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Los Angeles
It has the Beverly HIlls, The Hollywood Hills, Woodland Hills etc
Besides de The Santa Monica and San Gabriel mountain ranges.
Yes yes yes. LA's hills are its best features, Pacific Ocean adjacency aside. I live in the Echo Park hills (aka the Red Hills if you were alive in the 30's (I doubt anyone sincerely is here) and the view from my apartment is astounding (you'd think that would make it way more expensive, but it wasn't -- I found out why when I realized a balcony window facing west makes even the most Mediterranean climate turn into a Solar Oven -- but I digress. San Fran is usually the ideal candidate, but I much prefer LA because it has valleys to match it's hills, adding more contrast. Maybe I'm biased though, though I'm not a booster since I haven't lived in one city long enough to be a homer.
are the only ones worth mentioning. There are hills throughout the city. Not just on the edges of the city.
Los Angeles, Cincinnati? ... don't make me laugh.
The issue for you might be that LA is so large that you can't really say it's an overall hilly city. However, the city is so large that the portion of LA that is hilly is pretty huge and those parts are very hilly. Also, the mountain range in LA technically actually cuts through the middle--not just off on the periphery.
I heard Cincinnati and Pittsburgh before--pictures look plenty hilly to me.
The Bay Area has hills on all sides. I say Oakland tho cause the views are spectacular and so is the quality of life. But then in the West that tends to be the norm, the higher the elevation the higher the quality of life. lol
Up to a point. If it's far up enough to where it's outside of commuting distance, it starts looking like Hazzard County. There's some interesting pockets in the mountains outside of L.A.
Seattle definitely is right up there with San Francisco for steep hills right downtown, to the poster who said he doesn't like to walk in San Francisco because of its steep hills, Seattle would be miserable to them as well. (I actually relish walking up the steep hills of both; and in any hilly area like around L.A. or Portland).
When we were in Seattle in June, trucks were actually having problems going up the hills downtown, spinning out and having a hard time moving forward on the damp pavement, and in Seattle, damp pavement is a pretty much given. I would never drive in that city with even a hint of ice or snow on the road! It must be nearly as bad as the video above in Pittsburgh.
L.A's have a ton of recognition, but Cincinatti's hills are beautiful as well! I always enjoy driving through them. Also want to point out that San Antonio is quite hilly, especially to the north.
I typically like city hills with unique, urban development on them, so San Francisco and some cities on the east coast would have the best hills imo.
In terms of public staircases:
1. Pittsburgh 117
2. Los Angeles 89
3. Seattle 84
4. San Francisco 79
In terms of steepest streets in US, of the top 10, LA has 4, Pittsburgh and SF 2 each (although Pittsburgh has the steepest public street in US - Canton Ave. 37% grade).
And similar to San Francisco, Pittsburgh's hills are densely populated.
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